Will Rogers Quotes

I do take pride in saying that in spite of being in public life for so long, there is not a single case against me, not even for wrongly parking a scooter or driving on the wrong side.

A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich.

Integrity is important in building relationships. And is the foundation upon which many other qualities for success are built, such as respect, dignity, and trust.

I value my reputation. I work hard to avoid even the appearance of impropriety.

Keep integrity and your work ethics intact. So what if that means working a little harder; an honorable character is your best calling card, and that's something anyone can have!

Personal integrity implies such trustworthiness and incorruptibility that we are incapable of being false to a trust or covenant.

I think character is real important. And you know, and I think the public does.

I don't mind being cast as some kind of a pantomime baddie, but I am very fair in business. I always have been. I pride myself on being fair.

God knows I'm a good guy, I'm known in the industry as a good guy. I'm not known to be a foul, evil dude that you've got to watch out for and my name is not muddy in the industry.

If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.

It is a fair adornment of a man and a great convenience both to himself and to all those with whom he converses and deals, to act uprightly, uniformly, and consistently. The practice of piety frees a man from interior distraction and from irresolution in his mind, from duplicity or inconstancy in his character, and from confusion in his proceedings, and consequently securing for others freedom from deception and disappointment in their transactions with him.

There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity

I think you earn your reputation for honesty and integrity literally hour-by-hour, and taste for that matter.

Integrity is the human quality most necessary to business success.

When you're paid to do a job, it's better to give a few minutes more to it, than a few minutes less. That's one of the differences between doing a job honestly and doing it dishonestly! See?

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.

it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.

I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.

Credibility is to be good. You must be good. That's all I ever wanted - to be good at what I did.

Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains.

A small lie, if it actually is a lie, condemns a man as much as a big and black falsehood. If a man will deliberately cheat to the amount of a single cent, give him opportunity and he would cheat to any amount.

No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.